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IP stealing machine gets its IP stolen by IP stealing machine. Cries foul play.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/anthropic-says-chinese-ai-firms-used-16.html

@mahadevank fuck yeah! High five dude! 🤚

@gunstick The Silicon Valley index, we could call it.

For a bit of double entendre. The valley is coming. But we’ll take what the current price is please.

@OvertonDoors @JessTheUnstill @gpshewan @ramsey it’s paying them with money it doesn’t have.

At some point, the VC vultures are going to want an ROI.

OpenAI are generating only $20B in revenue as of Feb. They have a $18B burn rate, and a $640B data centre bill.

They need another $220B to actualise their growth target.

Users growth (cumulative, not including non-retention) are forecasted to flatline in the next 24 months.

That is not a money making venture.

The AI silicon demand is such that many consumer device manufacturers will go bankrupt by then end of the year. Nobody will be able to afford the devices they’d need to interact with AI services.

OpenAI is banking on each model becoming that much faster and efficient. But each iteration is becoming defunct faster due to their competition.

They’re not just expecting a bailout, they’re expecting not to fail while digging a multi trillion dollar hole.

And that’s just OpenAI. Nobody is going to afford a bailout.

I am LOVING seeing so many AI projects being paused or binned.

There’s one silver lining in the mass layoffs, they can’t lay off their absurd investment in power, cooling, and hardware. Loss adjusters and liquidators are rubbing their hands with glee.

Also, many silicon spinners are demanding 5 year agreements on production. It’s go big or go home time, and there will be some casualties.

One org I reluctantly work with pivoted their entire operating model to AI and agents, and they royally screwed their staff over.

They’re now hiring them as consultants at twice their original salary as everything fell on it’s arse, and who knew that go to market suits with a prompt can’t keep infrastructure or business running. Hilariously I know one engineer negotiated a one-sided 12 month contract notice period.

These people are going to get desperate, fast. Fetch the s’mores and let em roast.

Important stuff. Take note.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/european_parliament_bars_lawmakers_from/

@catsalad every warning has a story…

@jdechko @bob_zim I find Outlook and Teams doing this as a useful reminder to evaluate my life choices.

@g ha! I’ve just referenced this!

You can absolutely get fucked sky-high, if I’ve turned this off and you build a custom UI to pester me any anyway.

*20s into opening a new app*

“Why not take a moment to rate us on the App Store?”

Because I’m now going to make hating your products my entire personality.

“Are you enjoying this app?”

I fucking was until you interrupted me.

@jwildeboer Agreed, and a good article too. Very reassuring.

My main issue (and I’m currently in the market for a new car), is that I need to travel long distances frequently, moderately laden, and often in the cold (more frequently in the winter).

I could afford a decent spec EV, but I couldn’t really justify it, and would prefer to have the spare income.

I don’t pay for fuel, so it’s not that, it’s the hours added to journeys charging and the very real risk of being stranded tens (or a hundred in some cases) of miles from help. Some weeks could add 10-15 hours of charging for me, not including those while sleeping.

We trialled one of the new mid range Kias in ‘long range’ configurations, and struggled to get even 50% of the advertised range in December. Obviously that’s down to traffic, load, road conditions, temperature, and the type of miles you’re doing (for me it’s motorway or very rural fast B roads) but it’s still hard to get a good read on advertised range. It also really wasn’t cheap.

I know I’m probably an outlier, but it frustrates me as I’m environmentally conscious otherwise. Don’t drive much except for work, and I do drive a hybrid, and drive economically. I do carry auxiliary fuel tanks as even with a 400-450 mile range, it’s easy to get caught out between the UK and various sites over Europe.

I’m excited for the new battery tech people are working on now, though.

@star the randomness is guaranteed 🤭

@mttaggart make this an incremental game and I’d play it.

*Proceeds to stave off overwhelming ADHD impulse to drop all current projects and learn how to make this happen.*

@mttaggart I forgot the damn partner program.

For each new customer you refer to us, you get a 0.5% probability boost to your favoured outcomes*

For an additional $325k/yr you can get a spotlight announcement and a seat on our board of directors with voting rights.

*Annual quotas apply to maintain participation. Limited to maximum 120% probability per outcome.

@mttaggart Process Pachinko.

Every ‘bucket’ has an outcome. The jackpot just gives you more balls.

We could get some sweet animated dashboards, a Dynatrace integration which will show all green anyway, some sort of SIEM runbook which naturally make things worse, glossy exec reports.

Stick some GenAI in there, so you can ask it to influence outcomes and it be utterly incapable of doing so.

Add in premium modules for rate limiting, a rabbits foot, money paw, four leaf clover, ball credits (not getting the successes you need? Try more requests!)

We can spin up a side hustle which allows betting on business outcomes, which definitely isn’t gambling, but ‘investing’.

Honestly, we’ve just won the cloud. I was so wrong.

The stop using non-deterministic technologies to do tasks requiring deterministic outputs challenge.

Let’s try that.

@swelljoe seemed to grow into their angst, not out of it.

Everyone but Mike and Max forgot how to act.

Also *pan to Will’s neck* got old fast.

I’ve been perpetually frustrated with the latest season of Stranger Things. I have some thoughts, and they’re not good… however, it is a rare specimen that deserves to be studied!

They had this huge budget and comparatively near unlimited resources and spent it all ensuring that they had all of the period accurate props and wardrobe, and then making everything as bad as humanly possible.

Starting from the first scene, CGI where there didn’t need to be any, green screen compositing when straight filming would have been easier (and look better), some of the laziest colour grading I’ve ever clapped eyes on (in lieu of correct lighting in many cases), cheap muzzle flares added in post, badly lit CG models, with low accuracy motion vectors.

And that’s just visually, it’s sonically poor, too. Flat dynamic range, poor stereo separation, dubs lack believable spatial qualities, foley seems to be sourced on Temu.

And then in terms of actual production, the acting is largely fine, but more than one major cast member seems to have forgotten how to act (or got worse in one case). The dialogue is poorly written, lacks emotion, and the pacing is terrible. Eyelines are off, multi-cam shots lack continuity, and it just feels amateurish. Even the plot holes have plot holes, and the consequential story beats get forgotten as quickly as they were made up on the spot.

It’s easy to pick holes in the things we watch, but rarely do we see such so many errors or lack of polish or effort in one place. Truly a thing to behold.

I started to lose interest when S3 started, but the idea was still fun. So much lost potential.